Please mark your calendars to attend the final conference and report roll-out for the joint Atlantic Council and Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies project: NATO in an Era of Global Competition.

This eighteen-month effort, a joint project of the Atlantic Council and the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, aims to define the role of NATO and the broader transatlantic community in an era of emerging security challenges, global power shifts, and new disruptive technologies. The conference will convene leaders and experts from across Europe and North America to discuss the key report findings, including defining a new strategy for NATO, the impacts of the Ukraine crisis on NATO's strategic calculus, and NATO's future role in international security after the seminal 2014 Summit in Wales this September.

Future Role in European SecurityDerek Chollet, Assistant Security of Defense for International Security Affairs, US Deparment of DefenseModerator: Ian Brzezinski, Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council

12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break

12:45 – 2:00 p.m. Defending the Borders: Reassurance, Dissuasion,

and Collective Defense

Etienne de Durand, Director, Security Studies Center, Institut français des relations internationalsJo Gade,Fellow/Rear Admiral (ret.), Centre for Norwegian and European Security, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Kori Schake,Research Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University Moderator: James Goldgeier (@JimGoldgeier), Dean, American University School of International Service